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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] q35 and ahci
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To: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: David Allan <dallan@redhat.com>, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

> The current command line I'm using something such as:
> 
> $ /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64  -name "f16" -M pc_q35 -m 1G -smp 4
> -hda ./f16.img --enable-kvm  -bios <path>/q35-seabios/out/bios.bin
> -acpitable file=<path>/q35-seabios/out/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml  -monitor stdio
> 
> So it might be nice to avoid the '-acpitable' flag. Perhaps, we can
> teach qemu to pull in the correct acpitable depending on the -M
> specification...

I expect those switches being a temporary solution.  Once everything is
upstream in qemu and seabios there should be no need to specify a acpi
table manually.  Likewise for the bios binary.

cheers,
  Gerd